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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 3h

AW "Have COSLA considered any other measures, as part of this planning, to avoid airborne spread - for example mechanical ventilation in school buildings?"

ND "It wouldn't be for COSLA..."

"It is certainly something we could think about and consider in the round...."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 3h

ND "More and more of our settings are working towards having both indoor learning and outdoor learning spaces."

AW "So the guidance would be more about general principles than specific measures."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 3h

AW "Getting more out of it from an educational perspective?"
ND "Yes"

AW "And also safer from airborne viruses, is that also fair?"
ND "Yes, and obviously.... there was more capacity"

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 3h

Nicola Dickie, Convention Of Scottish Local Authorities

CVF's Qs @adamwagner1.bsky.social KC

"Did COSLA consider that outdoor learning is important when planning for future pandemics?"

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 5h

Claire is an excellent advocate for SEN and doesn't recognise the overlap. Unfortunately she did not answer the question.

"I would make a ... case for children with SEN because... at a higher risk of developing a MH problem and... often excluded from mainstream MH services."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 5h

Many schools took a trauma informed approach to mental health.

“For all [who experience bereavements and life traumas], if you look at the numbers of life-traumas children experience, children with SEN often ...experienced a larger number of adverse childhood experiences...”

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 5h

"We were given lots of information that the virus wouldn't affect children ... wouldn't get LC ... would bounce back without serious problems.

I didn't ever see a persuasive evidence base for that being the case, and... experience has told us since that it wasn't the case."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 5h

Claire Dorer OBE : Special schools

CV children:
A small number of CV children stayed home (CV children, not children with CV family members). Some staff visited at home to provide support. Schools encouraged attendance.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6h

New buildings with passive ventilation. No windows that open. Varying degrees of effectiveness.

"We could probably ... track correlations between outcomes and attendances based on the quality of school buildings and the environments."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6h

Ventilation in older buildings, challenges heating / keeping warm.

"Not a great learning environment."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6h

C(E)V children: Monitor and support

Ensuring they had home learning / food / support for wider families.

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 6h

John Barneby, Oasis Multi-Academy Trust

Clinically Vulnerable children and those in Clinically Vulnerable families: Some families kept children off school due to risks.

CTI : "Have you been aware of that as a particular concern affecting attendance?"

"No."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 22h

Professor Steve Turner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (@RCPCHtweets) @SteveTurnerABDN.

"children, mercifully, were spared from the harm of that came from Covid. Even my most sick patients .... it was their parents who were unwell...."

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 7h

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MPs back calls to restore NHS Covid vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people!

After pressure from CVF members and supporters - a rapid U-turn appears to be underway.

WELL DONE!

#KeepCovidBoosters campaign a HUGE success!

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 17h

To be fair, they haven't agreed to the Clinically Vulnerable again yet.

Although we would support universal vaccines!

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 17h

Please email your MP. It isn't over the line yet!

www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

Labour MPs Call for Covid Vaccine Access for Clinically Vulnerable People

After months of tireless campaigning, writing to MPs, briefing the media, and speaking up at the UK Covid Inquiry - our community may finally be seeing progress.We have received confirmation that some...

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 17h

They are in the Clinically Vulnerable group too!

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 17h

Please email your MP about it. X

www.clinicallyvulnerable.org/post/labour-...

Labour MPs Call for Covid Vaccine Access for Clinically Vulnerable People

After months of tireless campaigning, writing to MPs, briefing the media, and speaking up at the UK Covid Inquiry - our community may finally be seeing progress.We have received confirmation that some...

www.clinicallyvulnerable.org

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 1d

We still NEED YOUR SUPPORT on this important issue of vaccines for all CV people.

🙏Please write to your MP using our easy template!

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Labour MPs Call for Covid Vaccine Access for Clinically Vulnerable People

After months of tireless campaigning, writing to MPs, briefing the media, and speaking up at the UK Covid Inquiry - our community may finally be seeing progress.We have received confirmation that some...

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21h

CVF Qs @adamwagner1.bsky.social

"The guidance said that the majority of children with asthma, diabetes, epilepsy & kidney disease do not need to continue to shield and could [.]return to schools as they reopened.

Did you appreciate that [those] children [.] had not been told to shield?"

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 20h

AW "Do you think... that the College's guidance properly that there were some children for whom the risk would have been higher and the decision-making factors may have been just a bit different for them?"

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 20h

"For the child who had that additional risk.

Do you accept that for some parents ... it would have still been reasonable for them, making that individual risk analysis, to decide that ... was not the correct option for their children....?"

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21h

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 21h

"Do you also accept that schools were[.] still risky environments?

- crowded classrooms
- poor ventilation
- prolonged indoor contact
- lack of masking"

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